Admittedly, these figures are taken from March, which is when Ninja got his face on CNBC.

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It was just the other week when Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor hit the headlines for throwing a metal railing at a bus full of UFC fighters, landing himself in trouble with the law, so things may well shift around again for this month.

Still, the results are incredibly surprising – McGregor is the UFC’s most bankable star. It just goes to show how much of an all-consuming global phenomenon Fortnite has become when a Twitch streamer is ranked among the world’s top athletes.

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